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    Didn't unmount - leftover icon

    I took out a DVD from the drive without first unmounting it from Ubuntu, and there was a leftover DVD icon on the desktop. Of course when I tried to unmount it, it said "There is probably no media in the drive". When I tried to delete it, it just stayed there. Finally, after rebooting it went away, but my question is: is there's any (better) way of getting rid of it without having to reboot? (Or, is there any way to make icons go away automatically when you remove media from the drive?) I suspect I will forget to explicitly unmount a CD/DVD next time I use one, so it'd be nice to know how to deal with leftover icons without rebooting. Thanks.

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    Re: Didn't unmount - leftover icon

    I just noticed the same behaviour the other day. Sorry I don't have a solution though.
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    Re: Didn't unmount - leftover icon

    close and re-open nautilus. I've been having the same issue from time to time. i find it only happens when you are currently viewing the contents of the mounted file system. i find that to stop it from happening to switch to another folder before un-mounting the device.
    There is an easy way, and a hard way to do things.
    If you're anything like me, you've tried to do things things the hard way,

    and broke something.......

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    Re: Didn't unmount - leftover icon

    Thanks for the replies! The latter fix (not viewing the contents of the mounted device) works

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